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I worked on the Genius Bar for almost two years, and the most difficult issue to solve was short iPhone battery life. It was extremely difficult to pinpoint the exact reason why someone had iPhone battery drain.
I made it my mission to discover the specific reasons for iOS battery drainage. This article is a product of my years of research and anecdotal evidence I gathered in the hundreds of Genius Bar appointments I took during my time as a Genius and iOS technician, as well as testing on my personal devices and the devices of my friends.
This is not one of those "Turn off every useful feature of iOS 10" posts that grinds my gears. My goal is to deliver practical steps to truly solve your iOS battery woes.
One quick thing before we start — 99.9% of the time it is not actually iOS that is causing your battery to drain quickly. I guarantee you that if you erased your phone and there were no apps or email on it, it would last for ages. But, no one uses their device like that, nor should they. Hopefully with these steps you will be living with great iPhone battery life while still using all the apps and features you love.
But first, we need to test and see if you even have a problem to begin with.
How to Test For iPhone battery drain
There is a quick and easy battery life test built into your device, if you do a little bit of math — the Usage and Standby times. Head on over to Settings > General > Usageand check out your times.
In iOS 9 and up you can find the times in Settings > Battery (you have to wait for the list to load), then scroll all the way to the bottom.
Your Usage time is how long you have actually used your device, and the Standby time is how long your device has been dormant in-between the times you've used it plusyour Usage time. A better name for Standby time would be "Total Time since unplugged." The key to look for is that your Usage time should be significantlylower than your Standby time, unless you have been using your device every single second you've had it unplugged. If this is not the case and your Usage time is exactly equal to your Standby time, you have a severe problem. The bottom line is that your Usage time should be accurate to how much you've used it since you took it off the charger.
So here's the test: write down your usage and standby time, press the sleep/wake button (or lock button, as some call it) to put the device to sleep, and set the device down for five minutes. When you come back, take note of the change in time. If your device is sleeping properly, then the Standby time should have increased by five minutes and your Usage time by <1 minute 3. If your Usage time rises by more than one minute, you have a drain problem. Something is keeping your device from sleeping properly, significantly shortening the time it will last.
If you do not have a battery life issue, then great! You don't even need the steps listed in this article. But if you or someone you know is constantly complaining about how short their battery lasts, read onward or send this post to them.
Here are the main causes of iPhonr battery life problems I've found, and how to resolve them.
Step 1: Disable Location and Background App Refresh for Facebook
This first step to solving iPhone battery drain may seem extremely specific, but that's because it is extremely common and extremely effective. It has also been well tested and confirmed on many devices.
I just got the iPhone 5s about two weeks ago, and thought my battery was draining a little too quickly. Being the nerd that I am, I decided to run the app Instruments from Xcode, Apple's developer tool, in order to see what the problem was. Basically, Instruments acts as an Activity Monitor for your iPhone, allowing developers (or nerds like me) to see every process currently running and how much memory and processing power each app is using in real-time.
During this testing, Facebook kept jumping up on the process list even though I wasn't using it. So I tried disabling Location Services (4) and Background App Refresh (5) for Facebook, and you'll never guess what happened: my battery percentage increased. It jumped from 12% to 17%. Crazy. I've never seen that happen before on an iPhone. The iPod touch exhibits this behavior, to my memory, although I haven't tested it in a while. For the iPhone, the battery percentage is usually pretty consistent. (6)
I have confirmed this behavior on multiple iPhones with the same result: percentage points actually increase after disabling these background functions of Facebook.
Bad, Facebook, bad.
Step 2: Disable Background App Refresh for Apps You Don't Care About
My recent post gives an in-depth explanation of Background App Refreshif you want to know more. Background App Refresh is an awesome feature added in iOS 7, but you don't necessarily need it running for every app that supports it. Disable Background App Refresh for Facebook or other apps you don't absolutely need to stay up-to-date all the time.
If there are apps you check regularly, and you trust the quality of the app and developer, then enable Background App Refresh with confidence and enjoy your apps being updated intelligently so they're ready for your enjoyment at a moment's notice. Background App Refresh is great if you need it, but you really don't need it for every single app on your iOS device.
Step 3: Stop Quitting Your Apps in Multitasking
iOS 7 made it super fun to close your apps: all you have to do is double-click the home button and swipe up on the app preview to blast it into a digital black hole.
What most people tell you is that closing your apps will save your battery life because it keeps the apps from running in the background.
Yes, it does shut down the app, but what you don't know is that you are actually making your battery life worseif you do this on a regular basis. Let me tell you why.
By closing the app, you take the app out of the phone's RAM (7). While you think this may be what you want to do, it's not. When you open that same app again the next time you need it, your device has to load it back into memory all over again. All of that loading and unloading puts more stress on your device than just leaving it alone. Plus, iOS closes apps automatically as it needs more memory, so you're doing something your device is already doing for you. You are meant to be the user of your device, not the janitor.
The truth is, those apps in your multitasking menu are not running in the background at all: iOS freezes them where you last left the app so that it's ready to go if you go back. Unless you have enabled Background App Refresh, your apps are not allowed to run in the background unless they are playing music, using location services, recording audio, or the sneakiest of them all: checking for incoming VOIP calls (8), like Skype. All of these exceptions, besides the latter, will put an icon next to your battery icon to alert you it is running in the background. (9)
If you want to know more about this, here's a longer explanation on why closing your apps hurts your battery life.
Step 4: Disable Push Email Temporarily
If steps 1 through 3 did not solve your problem, try disabling Push email temporarily to see if it helps (10). Push email allows your device to receive instant notifications every time you get an email. It is great if you need to know when every single email comes in, but does impact battery if configured incorrectly.
I've seen many devices where Push is the primary cause of battery drain, but I've also seen plenty of devices have great battery life with Push enabled. It is really specific to your email and server settings. Try changing the setting to Fetch every hour, thirty minutes, or fifteen minutes and see if the drain stops. If that doesn't help, turn it back on. You could also trying disabling Push on individual accounts if you have multiple. Just keep referring to the test at the beginning of the article to see if that resolved your issue.
Unbelievably often, especially with Exchange push email, it's as if the phone gets stuck in a loop checking for email constantly. When this happens, the phone will usually die within six hours of being off the charger, and the Standby and Usage times in Settings > General > Usage will be exactly the same. These times are not the same because the "firmware (11) is bad or corrupted", it's because push email is keeping the phone from sleeping properly.
In my experience, malfunctioning email push is the primary reason for iPhone battery drain, and iOS 10 actually might have made it worse. There have been reports that after upgrading to iOS 10 that email push was re-enabled for all email accounts. Go and turn it off now! Settings > Mail > Accounts > Fetch New Data and turn it off for your accounts. Usually iCloud accounts are safe for push but Exchange, Hotmail, and any other sort of email cannot be trusted to handle Push adequately.
Step 5: Disable Push Notifications for Apps That Annoy You
Does that annoying game your child downloaded keep sending you push notifications to keep buying more digital sheep for the virtual farm? If so, every time you get one of those notifications, your phone wakes from sleep for a few seconds to light up your screen and wait for your potential action upon each notification.
Push notifications do not cause excess battery drain by default, so please don't hear me say you need to turn them all off. However, every message wakes your device for 5 to 10 seconds, so it can add up. If you receive 50 notifications during the day and never act on them, that will add 4 to 8 minutes to your Usage time, meaning you now have that much less time to do things you actually want to do on your device. (12)
Turn off those annoying Push notifications for apps you don't need notifications from. It might be a small difference, but it can add up.
Step 6: Turn Off Battery Percentage
That's right, you heard me.
Turn off that battery percentage meter and stop worrying about your battery drain. You can find this setting in Settings > General > Usage, right above where your battery times are listed.
One thing I found in my Genius Bar experience is that people that are anxious about their iOS device battery life are constantly checking it to see the percentage and how much it has dropped from the last time they checked it. So if you check your device twice as much, simply to check on the battery life, you are essentially halving the time your device will last.
Stop freaking out and enjoy your life. There are more important things to worry about than your device's battery life. The control freak inside you might freak out the first few days you do this, but you'll get used to it. (13)
Step 7: Go to an Apple Retail Store
Update: I was informed after posting this that the Apple battery test only runs on the iPhone 5 and up.
I know, you hate making a Genius Bar appointment because it's loud and crazy in there, but I have a good reason to add this to the list.
According to my sources, Apple has rolled out a new 'Extended Battery Life Test' for all iOS technicians that allows them to see a detailed report of battery usage on your device. It takes only a few minutes to run and, from what I've heard, is comprehensive. I have not had a chance to see this test for myself, but my friends tell me it rocks.
The other rare possibility is that your physical battery is defective, and the technicians can replace it for free if your iOS device is under warranty, or very cheaply if it's not.
Step 8: Enable Airplane Mode in Areas of Poor Cellular Service
One major reason you have iPhone battery drain is poor cellular service. When the iPhone detects that you are in a place of low signal, it will increase the power to the antenna in order to stay connected enough to receive calls (primarily) and maintain a data connection.
This will destroy your battery life if you are constantly in a location with 1 bar or no service at all. The unfortunate thing is that this can happen in more places than you expect — any building with metal studs in the walls, aluminum buildings, buildings with dense concrete walls, heavily populated city areas, and downtown areas with with lots of tall buildings.
Often times you may get a strong signal on the top floor of a building, but simply moving to a lower floor, such as the basement, will immediately cause your iPhone to hang on to signal for dear life at the expense of your battery. Note that this severe drain will happen even if you have a strong Wi-Fi connection, because your phone still needs the cellular connection for calls and SMS messages (the green-colored texts in the Messages app).
If you are in an area with poor cell coverage, and you still need to receive calls, I've got bad news — there is really nothing you can do. But if your service is so poor that you can't receive calls anyway, I recommend turning on Airplane mode by swiping up from the bottom of your device to access Control Center and tapping the Airplane icon.
One thing you may not know about Airplane mode: you can actually turn Wi-fi back onafter enabling Airplane mode. Just tap the Wi-Fi button in Control Center (the icon directly to the right of the Airplane). This is perfect for places, like an airplane, where you have zero cellular coverage but a strong Wi-Fi signal.
If you have Wi-Fi and want to be really fancy, you can disable just the cellular data portion of your signal, e.g. EDGE, 3G, 4G, or LTE. Most people don't know that your phone is actually receiving two signals simultaneously: one for calls and SMS, and one for data.
The signal strength meter on the iPhone only shows the signal strength for the non-data connection, which means theoretically your iPhone could show 2-3 bars (or dots on iOS7) for your 1x connection but in reality you could be getting 1 bar of LTE/4G/3G connection, causing the phone to go into heavy search mode. To disable just the Data connection of your iPhone, head over to Settings > Cellular Dataand switch Cellular Data off. Again, doing this will allow you to receive phone calls (if you still have a signal) while maintaining a data connection through Wi-Fi.
[NEW] Step 9: Enable Low Power Mode
Low power mode is the nuclear switch for making your iPhone last a really long time. According to Apple's documentation on Low Power Mode, it turns off the following when you enable it:
- Email fetch
- Hey Siri
- Background app refresh
- Automatic downloads
- Wi-Fi associations
- Some visual effects
Your battery will turn yellow and your phone will last for several hours longer than in normal mode. Thanks to this great research on Low Power Mode battery drainby Matt Birchlerat BirchTree, it looks like your iPhone lasts between 33% – 44% longer than normal usage. Since the iPhone is slated to work for 6 hours of usage, Low Power Mode adds between 2 – 2.5 extra hours of usage for a grand total of 8 – 8.5 hours. That's a huge increase for such a tiny switch.
To turn on Low Power Mode head to Settings > Batteryand flip the switch there. Oh, and as of iOS 9.3.1, you can enable Low Power Mode and Night Shift at the same time. An alert will automatically ask you if you want to enable Low Power Mode when your iPhone hits 20% battery
Low Power Mode also offers the side benefit of solving my gripe in footnote #13, which is that it will automatically enable your battery percentage. My dream setup has been to have battery percentage disabled (Step 6 from this article) from 100% to 20% and battery percentage enabled from 20% – 0%, which is exactly what this gives me if I enable it when it offers at 20%. Thanks, Apple! Hopefully somebody inside Apple read my blog. One can hope, right?
Thanks to commenter, Stefan Mohler, for pointing out that my percentage gripe was solved!
Step 10: Purchase an external battery pack or case
If all else fails, tt may be that you are simply a power user and you exceed the battery limitations of the iPhone you own. In that situation, your best option is to purchase an external battery pack or a battery case.
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The Anker Ultra Slim Extended Battery Caseis the best iPhone battery case I've found for the iPhone 6 and 6s.
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I guarantee you that if you follow these steps, you will be getting the best battery life possible out of your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.
If your device is still not lasting you a full day, and you can't stomach heading into one of the stainless steel noise chambers I lovingly refer to as your nearest Apple Retail Store, don't worry. There is still hope for you.
The reason your device isn't lasting all day might simply be because you are a heavy user, and your iOS device is acting completely normal under the grueling pace with which you use it. That is not a fault of the device, or you, for that matter. You are simply pushing it beyond it's capabilities. My advice for you is to buy a car charger, a second charger for travel/work, or a battery case to extend your battery life (14).
I hope this article empowers you to stop stressing about your battery life, and frees you up to enjoy the great device in your hands. There are more important things in life that deserve our attention, so the more we minimize the trivial stressors, like bad battery life, the more time we can spend on people and problems that really matter.
Questions Answered:
- Why is my iPhone battery draining fast?
- My iPhone battery drains fast, what gives?
- Why is my iPhone battery life bad?
Update July 29, 2016: Added Step 9: Enable Low Power Mode
Update July 21, 2016: Updated for iOS 9 and refined a good deal.
Update April 17, 2014: added Step 8 to the list.
- Users will report poor battery life after every iOS update. Always. For eternity. This is not newsworthy.
- This only works on the iPhone and iPod touch. Sorry iPad users, for some reason these times are not viewable. **Update** Reader Timothy Fultzemailed in to let me know that iPads on iOS 7 or later do have these Standby and Usage times. Thanks Timothy!
- Sometimes the Usage time will go up by one minute, but really it was only a few seconds. The minute was close to changing, and those few seconds pushed it over the edge to the next minute.
- Settings – Privacy – Location Services
- Settings – General – Background App Refresh
- Note about battery percentage: it is an estimateof how long your device will last looking at the amount of charge left in the physical battery and comparing that to the current processes draining that bank of electrical charge.A good thing to compare the way iOS calculates battery percentage is ETA (estimated time of arrival) in modern GPS and navigation. Most devices look at the miles left to travel and compare that to the speed limits of all of the roads you are going to travel on your current route. If you drive faster than the speed limit, you will get there faster than the estimated time, so it's not 100% accurate.Battery percentage estimates work the same way, looking at the amount of juice left (miles) versus how fast you're draining it (miles per hour). That explains why disabling Facebook made the percentage go up, much like how if you stop on a road trip, your ETA climbs significantly.
- Temporary, short-term memory.
- Internet phone calls.
- Apps that can make or receive calls, like Skype, Viber, Tango, Whatsapp, and Facebook are able to check for incoming calls without notifying you. I believe these types of apps sometimes abuse this exception and could have possibly influenced Apple to add Background App Refresh as the sanctioned method for this type of behavior.I think this is why disabling Facebook's background services is so influential on battery life: I speculate they are abusing the fact that they have VOIP call features to run in the background more than they should. It would provide a better experience for people using Facebook, sure, but people would never know Facebook was the cause of their battery life issues, and would definitely blame the device or iOS itself.
- Settings – Mail, Contacts, and Calendars – Fetch New Data
- The foundational software connecting hardware and software.
- That number may seem small, but over a year (x365) that number turns into 1,460 minutes (about a day) to 2,960 minutes (about two days) lessbattery life.
I really wish Apple had a "No battery percentage meter except under 20%" setting, so bad. That would be my ideal configuration.Yay, Apple semi-solved this with Low Power Mode, which I explain in Step 9.
- Or buy a second iPhone as your night phone 😉


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Misch dominates IronPigs
The Herd defeated the visiting Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs 4-1 behind a dominant start from Bisons lefty and lone All-Star Pat Misch.
Misch had one of his best starts of the season tonight when he tossed eight innings of shutout baseball while only giving up three hits and striking out seven batters. Misch retired the first ten batters of the contest before giving up a single to Iron Pigs center fielder John Mayberry Jr.
Following the single to Mayberry Jr. Misch then retired the next 12 batters he saw before giving up back to back singles to catcher Dane Sardinha and shortstop Brian Bocock in the eighth inning.
With the win, Misch is now 10-4 for the year, finally getting that elusive tenth victory and making him the first Bisons pitcher since Jeremy Guthrie (12-10) did it in 2005 to reach the double digit mark in wins. Dillon Gee (9-7) will get the chance to join Misch and Guthrie as double digit winners when he takes on the Iron Pigs Monday night.
Jorge Padilla got the offense going for the Herd in the second inning when he singled home Nick Evans to put the Bisons on the board. A Ruben Tejada force out would drive home another run in the second giving the Bisons all the runs they would need for the night.
Buffalo added two more insurance runs in the sixth inning after Evans hit a bloop single to right field that was able to drop due to the Iron Pigs infield playing shallow. Evans' single was good enough to score Lucas Duda and Padilla would get Evans home when he hit his 15th double of the year later in the inning.
The Iron Pigs finally generated some offense in the ninth inning following Misch's departure. Lehigh Valley got two hits in the final frame and avoided being shut out when Ozzie Chavez scored from third off of a Mayberry Jr. force out but ultimately were defeated by Buffalo, 4-1.
The Bisons are now 54-53 on the season and 5-4 versus the Iron Pigs. Lehigh Valley drops to 44-64.
BISONS NOTES: The Bisons will try to keep their hot streak going tomorrow night when Fernando Nieve takes on Iron Pigs righty Vance Worley at 7:05 p.m. There will be a post game Bisons Home Run Derby as the Herd looks to bombard Oak Street with long balls. A fireworks show will also follow the derby.


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So it's race time again, as in, Long Beach this weekend race time. I can't believe I am already ready to get back on that starting line and give racing another shot. It's funny because when I look back over the past year, I realize that the race I will be running on Sunday will be the same race I ran for my first half marathon exactly one year ago. It blows my mind that only a year ago I ran my first 1/2 marathon. I remember running the Long Beach course, and having so much fun and enjoying running and racing. It was like a grand re-entrance back into the world of racing. I hadn't entered back into any races since my high school race days, over 4 years before Long Beach last year.
I remember training for Long beach last year, the first "training runs" blew my mind that I continued to run "that far" each weekend. I started out running only 2-5 miles on any given day, just for fun and then I decided to sign up for the Long Beach 1/2. I wasn't running far before then. I was just running after work, at the gym, just for MYSELF. I upped my mileage weekend by weekend and slowly and surely I remember reaching ten miles. I couldn't believe I ran that far! I had done it! I spent that entire Saturday that I had run the 10 miles in awe that I HAD RUN TEN MILES. It was so crazy to me. I had gotten so close to the race and I was getting so excited. I had just started my blog about a month ago and was excited to race and then write up my first race report. I loved writing and I love blogging and I loved running. I was so nervous. I really thought I wouldn't be able to do it. I remember talking to people, seriously asking them if I could complete the task ahead of me.
My initial goal was to finish in under two hours. I got to the race expo and was doubtful that I could make it to the finish. I saw a lot of people there though and it made me think to myself, "Well if they can do it, so can I!" I remember how nervous I was before that race. I realized that night before the race, I had no race outfit picked out and really didn't even have many options besides my cotton t-shirts to wear. I opted for a cotton shirt, a cotton sports bra and my black booty shorts. No surprise on the last one huh, those started early :) I woke up that morning and was so excited! I got ready to go and was driven down to the starting line. I was nervous but running with a friend, and I knew that if we worked together we would make it to the finish. The miles began to pass by and I watched the time tick by on my watch and remember it going faster and faster. I remember running in the race and still wondering if I was ever going to make it to the finish line. I had never run that far before. I was getting so nervous I wouldn't make it in time for my goal. I remember starting to take off around mile 10 because I had a lot left in my tank and I wanted to be sure that I made it in under 2 hours.
I remember approaching the finish. Since it is a rather large race, there were a ton of people there, cheering and yelling. It's so exciting to go down the chute and see your time on the big clock. I finished under 2 hours and I knew I would have to race again. We all know my heart belongs to the half marathon, and that was the day that 13.1 won me over.
That's when I fell back in love with racing. The feeling and energy that was at the starting line. All the bodies, shivering and getting ready to embark on a crazy running journey together. The national anthem being sung, and the excitement that floods your heart and mind as the gun goes off. Then you take off, and you question yourself along the way, wondering if today is 'your day' or wondering if you will finish, but deep down, you know you can do this. You can doubt yourself, but your legs take over and your mind wills you along. "You've done this before, you can do this now." You just keep pushing yourself along and finally, you're tired, you're worn out, you're whole body hurts, but then, you see the finish line, and it's over. You did it. I love that feeling.
I've had my ups and downs with races.
I ran amazing at the Kaiser 1/2, without much effort, I also met some great friends at this race, and made new running buddies.I won my age group a few times, and I've had nothing but a lot of fun.
I've dealt with lots of random things, from bloody socks, to bathroom issues, to hydration issues. Then I've had some horrible races that I hated. Surf City this year just wasn't good for me, and I had an 'off' day.
I know San Diego, my first marathon, wasn't everything I wanted it to be, and sometimes I wish it came out differently, but at the same time, I realize that San Diego taught me a lot about myself as a runner and as a person. Now I can laugh about my 'bad races', and still celebrate the good ones. I have had some great training runs and trail runs too, including a great run in San Juan Capistrano with some friends as well.
I've seen some great sunsets and sunrises and I've come a long way, but my last race was only a year ago! Since Long Beach last year, I've ran 3 5ks, 2 10ks, 1 25k, 4 half marathons and 1 full marathon. That blows my mind. I really, truly believe that anyone can run and anyone can race.
I can't believe that this year, I already ran a marathon. I wasn't planning on doing that until next year, but if you put your mind to anything, you can do it. Slow and steady, upping the mileage, anyone can do it. I can't wait to have a return to my favorite course this weekend, the race that started it all only one year ago!
And, thank you all so much for the birthday wishes. You are all what makes me keep going when I think I can't. Your support, insight, love and kindness reminds me why I love to run when I think I don't anymore.


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Mickelson announced Wednesday he will play in the Humana Challenge on Jan. 17-20 in La Quinta, Calif. That's the same week several of golf's biggest names will be across the globe in another desert at the Abu Dhabi Golf Championship. Tiger Woods and Jason Dufner are among the Americans playing in Abu Dhabi.
Mickelson won the tournament in 2002 and 2004 when it was known as the Bob Hope Classic. He set the tournament record in 2004 with 37 birdies when it was a 90-hole event.
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Monday, April 30, 2012
The Kingdom on the Edge Of Reality by Gahan Hanmer Review
About the Book
Sometimes it's funny how fast things can change, and sometimes it's not...
Welcome to Albert Keane's beautifully designed medieval kingdom nestled in a completely isolated river valley in the Canadian wilderness. Peaceful, happy, and prosperous, it takes nothing from the modern world, not so much as a single clock.
There is a castle, of course, and a monastery. There is even a pitch dark, rat-infested dungeon - because you simply have to have one if you are trying to rule a feudal kingdom!
Farmers work the land, artisans ply their trades, monks keep school and visit the sick, and nobody (well, almost nobody) misses the modern world at all.
So why has Jack Darcey - actor, wanderer, ex-competitive fencer - been tricked and seduced into paying a visit? And why hasn't anyone told him that the only way to leave is a perilous trek across hundreds of miles of trackless wilderness without a compass or a map?
Because a tide of fear and violence is rising from the twisted ambitions of one of King Albert's nobles, and Albert's fortune teller believes that Jack could turn the tide - if he lives long enough ...
My Review
Jack is down on his luck and is transported by his old time very wealthy friend, Albert Keane into a medieval world, which he created and truly wants Jack to be part of it. At first, he doesn't know why he wants him there in the first place and I wondered myself who would want to go back living in such crude and dangerous times. Jack decides to try it out and see if it suits him. The land is worked by farmers and the trades by artisans.
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Pages: 360
Release: April 2, 2012
About the Author
Gahan Hanmer enjoyed a colorful career in the theater as actor, director, designer and technician, and also wandered extensively searching for love, happiness and truth. He unintentionally became a grown-up raising two beloved daughters and now lives in the high chaparral desert of California.
In describing his book, Hanmer says, "The Kingdom on the Edge of Reality has the shape of a fantasy (small kingdom set aside in time and space, saintly king, evil duke, prophecy, unlikely hero), the book is about a real kingdom set up in the present day by a wealthy eccentric in the Canadian wilderness; there is no magic, no bizarre weapons or fantastic creatures. Everything that takes place is the story is possible and plausible. It's not a fantasy. Among other things its a serious book about the human predicament and lies across several genres, or maybe falls through the cracks between several genres, and that's what makes it unique."
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Uncensored: Chalkboard survives east end plans
Three years ago, the Community Chalkboard was quite the local controversy when City Council approved the free speech monument where citizens, if they please, will be able to write the f-word or n-word– or even the j-word– right in front of City Hall.
Since then, the whole idea has pretty much dropped out of sight.
Was it a victim of the new transit center and the Coran Capshaw-backed amphitheater, too explosive to fit in the grand design that will complete the east end of the Downtown Mall and be the first thing some visitors to Charlottesville see?
No way. The Community Chalkboard: A Monument to Free Expression, is still a go, and designers have carved out space for it, according to Bill Letteri, who's in charge of the east end project for the city.
Chalkboard construction was stalled when the city decided to move the transit center from West Main to the east end of the Mall on Water Street. "Our project had to go on hold," says Josh Wheeler at the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, whose baby the chalkboard is. "In the last six months, it's taken off again."
Architect Robert Winstead and landscape architect Pete O'Shea won a competition for the monument's design in 1998. "You could do a historical piece on all the places it's supposed to have been– four or five different sites," says Winstead.
The latest and presumably last location is in front of City Hall. "I think it's an appropriate location for the monument," says Winstead. "It's a transitional, mediating element on the civic plaza between City Hall and the Downtown Mall, where the public interacts with government."
Winstead describes a three-part monument: First, the inscription panel with the First Amendment and list of donors; the community blackboard section made of Buckingham slate ("rough-textured, what blackboards were made of 100 years ago"), and a podium or lectern section. The entire piece will fit into a 60' by 30' paved rectangle on the Mall.
The Thomas Jefferson Center hasn't announced a date for groundbreaking. "We are in the quiet part of our campaign to raise funds," says Wheeler, "and then we'll go to a public campaign."
The center is trying to raise $250,000 to construct the monument, plus funds to maintain it.
As fitting a permanent tribute to free expression in Thomas Jefferson's hometown may seem, not everyone is happy to hear the chalkboard is still on.
"I thought it was a bad idea then," says pedestrian activist Kevin Cox. "I hoped the outrageous cost would kill it."
He objects to the fact that people are welcome to erase others' comments, which he calls a "loophole" to assuage City Council fears that the board will be littered with profanity.
He also thinks it won't be clear to the public that the monument is privately owned, and worries the erasures could be seen as government censorship.
The board will be wiped clean– maybe once a week– says Wheeler. That will be the only official erasing. "Anybody acting in their private capacity can write on the monument, and anybody acting in their private capacity can erase," he says.
"Free speech is the willingness to tolerate speech that's offensive and unfavorable," counters Cox. "I don't see that coming out of that monument."
Wheeler isn't worried that the monument to free expression will, in fact, stifle free speech: "The whole purpose is to show the evolving challenges to free speech."
And he promises some "significant" chalkboard news in the next month or so.
The free speech chalkboard has not been derailed in the east end of the Downtown Mall makeover.


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As you know if you've been reading this week, Auntie Em has taken on The 7-Day Real Food Challenge presented by Mary's Kitchen. As I said in my "What Do You Mean, Real Food Challenge?" post, that may mean different things to different people. A very strict Real Food diet would include ONLY fresh, whole food in its original form. That's more restrictive than fits my lifestyle, so rather than toss it out completely, I'm doing a modified one. (You can read my guidelines on the "What Do You Mean?" post.)
(Obviously) Eat Fresh or Frozen Fruits and Veggies.
Limit your fruits if you are trying to lose weight or keep your sugar down, as they are higher in natural sugars. Real butter is a real food– flavor with that or with olive oil. Don't use margarine or "lite" stuff. This kind of cooking/eating is time consuming, so be smart about it: Cook larger quantities and then just reheat them for subsequent meals. Here are just a few Auntie Em recipes:
"Complicated" Fruit Salad (It's really effortless!)
For several months I've been starting my day with a packet of oatmeal. *bangs head on table* Compare the ingredients in the first picture (pre-packaged) and the canister (1-minute rolled oats).
These still wouldn't pass muster on a strict Real Food diet, but they are a lot closer than the boxed, packaged stuff. Rule of thumb: The more steps between original food and your mouth, the less "real" it is. Mr. Quaker Oats had to do something to make those oats cook in 1 minute. (For a simple explanation of the journey from oats from the field to steel cut oats, to rolled oats, to quick oats, check here.) I made up a "2-serving" batch (1 cup of oats, 2 cups water) and added a chipped-up apple, a tsp of cinnamon, 1/2 tsp salt, and 1 TBS maple syrup. Good! 2/3 cup was plenty. I added a TBS of vanilla almond milk for a little extra and it was quite tasty. A little more trouble up front, but now for several days I will be able to just microwave it like the little package.
From packaged oatmeal to quick oats: Progress!
I used to take 4 packets of Splenda in my large mug of coffee. (Don't judge) Now, I pour my half and half and sip. Not terrible. Then I add ONE Splenda and it tastes quite sweet enough!
4 Splenda packets to 1: Progress!
I've used spaghetti squash in place of pasta– a lot of trouble but okay taste and texture. Today I julienned zucchini and sautéed it, then topped with spaghetti sauce. Just as good, and much less trouble!
Pasta to vegetable: Progress!
Main dishes
A salad is great! Add chicken or any other meat you grilled last night. Be wary of croutons and salad dressing. Those are often very processed. Make your own salad dressing– cheaper, healthier, and you get exactly what you want. Soups and stews are another great way to eat clean. Add homemade broth and fresh or frozen veggies to meat and you've got it.
I made this paleo strawberry shortcake that was pretty good. I used real whipped cream, not Cool Whip.
I haven't fixed many desserts– if anything, we are mostly eating fruit — because we are trying to cut calories too. And as my wise son said, "If it's superfluous, why eat it?"
I hope I've given you a bit to "chew on" in your Real Food journey!


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A collection of scholarly works about individual liberty and free markets. A project of Liberty Fund, Inc.
1913 - —
Historical Period:
The 20th Century and Beyond
Spadaro was a economist who taught at Fordham University since 1938. He was Dean of the Graduate School of Business and Chairman of the Department of Economics. He was the author of the textbooks Economics: An Introductory View (1969) and was President of the Institute for Humane Studies.


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Time travel: Classic mill and Crafty bungalow
ADDRESS: 3211 and 3197 Lowesville Road
SIZE: 2,732 fin. sq. ft.
NEIGHBORHOOD: Lowesville
CURB APPEAL: 9 out of a possible 10
LISTED BY: Carole Saunders, Montague, Miller & Co.
Imagine a Wal-Mart still standing after 200-plus years. Will we look back with nostalgia and sentiment to imagine all sorts of good times happening there? Will shopping carts seem quaint and fetch high prices at antique shops? Who knows?
But driving up to this property raises similar questions. Constructed beside the road and also along a tributary of the Piney River, this monolithic mill circa 1794 sits in all its glory. Fully operational throughout most of its long tenure in fact, until August 2001– it stands as a tribute to a bygone era.
In its long history, having ground out cornmeal, grits, and flour as well as (unpasteurized) cider for the local community, Woodson's Mill may be one of the East Coast's best examples of a 19th century water-powered mill.
Structurally intact and in operational condition, in December 1992, the Mill was entered in the Virginia and National Registers of Historic Places. The vernacular four-story post and beam building easily makes one think of family and community gatherings (more so than Wal-Mart). As an almost-turnkey operation, the mill could be up and running in a matter of weeks.
Behind the mill and up a small hill, the house belonging to this property also brings into sharp focus another era. Built in 1929 by a local craftsman, the house is one of the best examples of an Arts and Crafts home in the area.
Tom Stermitz of the Arts and Crafts Movement Resource Directory writes on line, "When you walk into a Craftsman Bungalow, the sense of space, the openness of the rooms, and the rustic or bold-square style, feel completely different from the Victorian homes still being built in the 1910s."
Inspiration for the Craftsman style came from nature, local materials, and building traditions. A preponderance of woodwork for the floors (maple), staircases (oak), and lintels (walnut) makes the house somewhat dark, but such penumbra is one hallmark of a true Craftsman Bungalow.
The bungalow became the first step in the march toward the modern "ranch" house. The layout emphasizes the horizontal rather than multiple stories, and the prevailing aura was very middle class. The "man of the house" still had the library, but the "woman's workspace" became more functional, and the fireplace or hearth became the family center to a degree that was almost mythical.
Stermitz continues, "Made of rustic river stone, the fireplace was often framed by symmetrical bookshelves to create a cozy inglenook." Stermitz might have been looking at this hearth.
Another Craftsman trademark is a front porch wide enough to be an outdoor room covered by an expansive overhang to create the illusion of the house nestling into the earth. It works. This house beckons like a cozy cave.
Beginning in the 1920s, a tuberculosis epidemic swept the country, giving rise to nationwide health awareness. An offshoot of these concerns was to construct "TB rooms" or sleeping porches that were surrounded on three sides by windows so that fresh "healing" air could circulate. There's a beautiful one here, located at one end of the wide front porch. With access to the front room, it still is a lovely place to sit and take the "breeze."
Everything here epitomizes a Craftsman Bungalow. All the rooms seem larger than normal, uninterrupted as they are by doors or narrow hallways. A front staircase rises to a large landing leading to five bedrooms and one bath. A smaller back staircase leads down to a butler's pantry, full bath, and what one supposes was the library. A kitchen without a lot of fluff rounds out the interior.
Outdoors is countryside. Forty five acres of rolling hills, a rustic barn, a lake with dock, an octagonal deck beneath massive Chinese chestnut trees all add to the impressive history here. Maybe one day in the future as our thoroughly modern world has swung back to a less commercial existence, the Wal-Mart will sit empty, and we will all live in spaces that are in harmony with our surroundings instead of in conflict. Houses such as this remind us that we once lived differently, and possibly better.


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MARION — Residents at a special Town Meeting Monday night approved funding for the town's first Habitat for Humanities home.
MARION — Residents at a special Town Meeting Monday night approved funding for the town's first Habitat for Humanities home.
Voters were asked to transfer money from fiscal 2013 town funds to the Community Preservation Committee for a Buzzards Bay Habitat for Humanities home to be located at 185 Wareham St. The transfers are $10,000 from the Open Space account, $10,000 from Community Housing and $10,000 from estimated annual revenues.
Habitat for Humanity builds and rehabilitates homes through volunteer labor and donations of money and materials. Homeowners invest 300 hours of their own labor into building their Habitat houses and the houses of others in exchange for an affordable, no-interest, 20-year mortgage. The current Habitat homes closest to Marion are in Wareham.
Buzzards Bay Habitat for Humanities representatives George Victor and Jack Becker said the home, which will be located close to the Seahorse Restaurant, will include 1,100 square feet of living space, three bedrooms, one bathroom and a loft above the kitchen; it will be set back on a 24,000 square foot lot.
They said the homeowner will be carefully screened for low-income eligibility yet be able to afford a mortgage. The home, with a market price of approximately $160,000, will be sold for $85,000 under the Habitat program.
"It won't look like a housing project home, believe you me," Becker said.
Voters also transferred $26,500 from free cash to address the discovery of a serious level of mold in the Town House basement.
However, some residents voiced concerns that the town was wasting that money when there are also plans to totally renovate the town office building.
"Maybe it would be good to have total plan for the Town House first," Janet Keeler said.
Selectman Jonathan Henry explained the basement mold is sending unhealthy spores to the upper floors where town personnel work. Any total renovation plan is at least two years away and, until then, employees need to have a safe working environment, he said.
Voter also approved an article that changed the date of the annual Town Meeting from the third Monday in May to the second Monday in May. Town Administrator Paul Dawson said the change is needed because the town election date often collides with the Memorial Day holiday.
In other action, organizations wishing to offer alcohol when using the town beaches for an event will have to get a one-day liquor license from the Board of Selectmen first.
Voters also approved the transfer of $84,000 in fiscal 2013 estimated revenues for the Community Preservation Committee's general fund.


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Review: Son of a Witch, by Gregory Maguire
On the face of it, "The Wicked Years" series, which re-examines, of all things, L. Frank Baum's Oz to uncover all sorts the bitter political tension and personal injustice lurking beneath the children's narrative, is not high on the list of books that really needed to be written. Wicked only entered my consciousness because it was ubiquitous in the airports, and little did I realize that it'd already been adapted to a popular musical, and following that, Maguire was moved to write sequels. I could have bought a Wicked tote bag with my purchase if I wanted to, and the book came with a sheet of little promotional witchy stickers. Now that I'm into the series, it means that I'm in on the whole phenomenon, and I hate that! Thanks a lot, bright.
I liked how Wicked managed to carve out a complex and sympathetic individual out of what had heretofore been a cardboard evil, and Son of a Witch performs the same feat for what had been, until then, a non-character. I don't mean to say that Liir had been overlooked by the author, but rather that he was written as a Ralph Wiggum, an unwelcome tagalong of probable-but-unsure progeny, an uncomfortable little non-sequitur, a chubby blank slate of a kid that tended to gravitate toward authority only to get ignored or abused by it. [And why "Liir"? I'm pretty sure he's Maguire's creation, and it's a name with mountains of connotation for an English-language writer, approximately none of which is yet evident.]
The bulk of the second novel has Liir, older now, struggling to fill in the body of motivations and sympathies that drives ordinary people, and to get past his own burgeoning self-contempt at this apartness. Liir witnesses state-sanctioned horrors, but nonetheless gravitates to an anonymous military career as a means to keep himself fed, and because it relieves him of choosing his own path. The atrocities that he sees--and under orders, finally commits--eventually break through his rationalizations, and the plot is pieced together from that point, but I wouldn't call it an epiphany. The compelling part about the character is that there is no moral bluster about his conversion, and there's not really any forgiveness. Liir retains much of his fundamental weakness and bitterness, but (I don't think it's spoiling the novel to say), he manages to move history forward through what would only be called strength of character by an outside observer. It's a well-handled balance, and it is satisfying that Maguire had no obligation to topple the edifice of Liir's individuality to satisfy the source material, like he did with the original witch. The world of the sequel is, on the whole, better thought-out and fit-together than in Wicked, as the best middles often are.
The blurbs spin the series as an analysis of the subtleties of good and evil. I don't think that's accurate. Elphaba (the witch) and Liir have unlovable personality faults (a simmering misanthropy in the former, an uncentered character in the latter), but their sin is dissidence and their motivations for revolt are humanitarian (or rather, Animalitarian). It's certainly not malice. The evil in the book is the official sort, popular, codified and systemic, but it is not vague. If there is difficult nuance at work here, it comes from mapping this story onto the original Oz books, and onto our lives outside of the book.
Maguire doesn't quite cross the line into political and religious satire though, even if he gets close, and the story isn't exactly a "straight" version of fantasy either, as there is some typical magic-and-wonder stuff here, and things seem to behave, at least partly, by fairyland rules. Like many a good fantasy yarn, the whole thing is set in motion by an external cross-worlds plot device that unfolds like destiny, but played out by typical human motivations. Or maybe not typically human. The characters border on the archetypical, but don't quite get there either. Our Ozians seem to be, as a rule, more articulate, intelligent and self-aware than your normal Earthling (and to be more than they imagine themselves). Letting every character be a walking info-dump, even a coy one, can be annoyingly facile, but I found that I liked it here, found it organic to Maguire's not-quite-mythical Elsewhere. Early in the book, for example, Liir has a conversation with the Scarecrow (that one), who reveals himself as a political pawn, and gives the boy some advice. The wordplay on knowledge is entertaining, and it's clear that the Scarecrow is a canny but self-deprecating fellow, whose brains, or lack thereof, are more about ignorance than anything. What little we see of Dorothy, we find her more normal by human standards, which is to say direct, insipid, and loathed.
A land like Oz (which let's not forget, was originally written as a sort of escape from midwestern life of the Populist era) is ripe for this sort revisionism--the story of such a harmonious productive land really does have a resemblance to some bullshit political propaganda. The land is a little weird. It feels a little small and underpopulated (the approximate acrage of Kansas seems about the biggest it might be) to support that combination of diversity, technology, military and economy, and no one really marvels at these malevolent, intelligent dragons, which are dispatched from the plot far too easily and anticlimactically (even if teh circumstances worked well for the characters). The landscape seems artificial and staged compared to the reality of the characters, and I want to compare it to books that explore human nature honestly, but in odd microcosm, like, as I mentioned last time, The Iron Dragon's Daughter, or John Crowley's The Deep. But for all that, the Wicked years don't quite trip over into allegory either. If anything, Maguire twists this notion just a little more, intending that our world--Dorothy's world--imitates theirs as much as the reverse, where we are the alien.
So, it's a more interesting literary niche than the embossed, cut-out covers and the popularity would have you believe, but I seem to recall a saying about that. Strong in character and an intriguing setting. I bought the third one, but discreetly. I neglected the tote bag.
[As an aside: there was a musical instrument featured that had two sets of strings, one across the other at right angles. I took it that the second set wasn't fingered or plucked (although maybe they could be struck), and was meant to resonate with notes on the normal set. I thought it was a clever idea which may actually work. I'm not sure how much just-resonating strings would add, and if the thing wasn't perfectly tuned, I think they'd sound like total ass, but still. Is the instrument completely made up?]


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"Congress deserves an answer" on huge ammo purchases
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
March 28, 2013
Janet Napolitano has ignored a letter written by New Jersey Congressman Leonard Lance calling for the Department of Homeland Security chief to attend a congressional briefing and provide an explanation as to why the DHS has committed to purchasing more than 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition over the last year.
Lance, who first promised to investigate the matter during a Tea Party event on March 15, sent a letter five days later noting how there was "growing public concern surrounding the Department's procurement of ammunition."
"He is not asking for Napolitano to testify but to give us a congressional briefing because Congress wasn't aware of it. It deserves an answer," Lance spokesman Todd Mitchell told the Daily Record.
Over a week after the letter was sent, Lance's office has still not received a response, similar to how 15 other members of Congress were stonewalled by the DHS when they demanded to know if the huge bullet purchases were an attempt by the federal agency to restrict ammunition supplies.
Instead of a formal explanation, the federal agency released a glib statement to the media claiming the amount of ammunition purchased was not abnormal, that the bullets were bought in bulk "because it's cheaper for the agency," and that the rounds were for training purposes only.
However, the DHS has completely failed to address the fundamental flaw in their explanation. Most of the bullets purchased are hollow point rounds which are twice as expensive as full metal jacket bullets, rendering the claim the agency is buying in bulk to save money redundant.
As former Marine Richard Mason told reporters with WHPTV News in Pennsylvania earlier this month, "We never trained with hollow points, we didn't even see hollow points my entire four and a half years in the Marine Corps."
Earlier this week, a weapons manufacturer who supplies ammunition to the federal government told the nationally syndicated Savage Nation radio show that the ammo purchases were an attempt to "control the amount of market that's available on the commercial market at any time," by forcing manufacturers to hold back stock.
Ammunition is in short supply across the country, with police departments being forced to barter between themselves to meet demand while gun stores across America have resorted to bullet rationing.
Earlier this week, the DHS put out a solicitation asking for 360,000 more bullets to be delivered to the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Artesia, New Mexico, the same destination for 240,000 hollow point rounds which were purchased only last month.
Last week, retired United States Army Captain Terry M. Hestilow sent a letter to Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) warning that the ammo purchases represent "a bold threat of war by that agency (DHS), and the Obama administration, against the citizens of the United States of America."
Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a host for Infowars Nightly News.
This article was posted: Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 6:32 am
Tags: government corruption, gun rights